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Linux-only POWER5 server From IBM

Posted by Hemos on from the making-the-rounds dept.

vaporland writes "This story from Infoworld.com talks about IBM's new low priced POWER5 based servers which will ship with Red Hat or Suse Linux, but not IBM's AIX. My question is, will it boot up Apple's OSX Server?"

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  1. No. by wankledot · · Score: 5, Funny
    "My question is, will it boot up Apple's OSX Server?"

    No. Next question.

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    1. Re:No. by kworthington · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yes. Next question.

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    2. Re:No. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Posted anonymously should any senior management be reading this...

      So back at your workplace senior management regularly check /. for employee's posts? and require you to make the id known? and they're still in business???

  2. Re:Big blue.. tux? by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Chances are you've probably not seen my desk -- not an easy task."

    Ah, but have you seen your desk? If not in the past few years I'll be impressed.

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  3. Re:My answer is.... by Noksagt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Also, since when is 5k$ low cost?
    For something from Big Blue, this is a bargain basement price.
  4. the better question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it boot OS/2?

  5. Re:Big blue.. tux? by qmchenry · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Ah, but have you seen your desk? If not in the past few years I'll be impressed."

    I was dissapointed to learn that your desk has to be missing for at least two years before the police will officially consider it missing. Sad because, by then, it could develop its own ecosystem.

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  6. Re:Awesome, although I give it long odds by Zorilla · · Score: 2, Funny

    so now it's almost as good as the x68 target.

    Almost as good as the X68000 so far? I'd say there's a bit more work to do :) At least that system had a nice Castlevania game on it that managed to get a PS1 port to the US. (Castlevania Chronicles)

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  7. Re:AIX limitations? by bluephone · · Score: 4, Funny
    " Is there anything on the silicon they would prevent me from installing AIX on it?"

    Sanity?

    An alternative, yet equally funny answer would have been "SCO?"

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  8. WOW! 'linux-only' means... by ant_tmwx · · Score: 3, Funny

    too busy to read the TITLE? this is even lazier than me. RTFT.

  9. Re:Big blue.. tux? by yoshi_mon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Chances are you've probably not seen my desk -- not an easy task.

    While the old saying does, "Never judge a man until you have sat for a day at his desk." I have to wonder if it even holds a candle to some truely messy desks.

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